Search engine for Japanese sex hotels announces security breach ZDNet

HappyHotel, a Japanese search engine for finding and booking rooms in "love hotels," disclosed a security breach at the end of last year. Love hotels are hotels built and operated primarily for allowing guests privacy for sexual activities. Love hotels, also known as sex hotels, are used by both married couples and cheating spouses, alike, and are found all over the world, but they are particularly popular in East Asia, and especially Japan. HappyHotel.jp is a website that operates similarly to Booking.com, but lets registered users search and book rooms in love hotels across Japan. In a message posted on its website, Almex, the company behind the service, said it detected unauthorized access to its servers on December 22, last year.